Ft. Worth

This is the mansion. My comp. and I live here alone. It is huge and awesome. It is kinda old, but the water pressure here is amazing. Like, crippling water pressure. Anyway, here is a pic of my comp. 

He's originally from Samoa, but has lived in west valley for the last few years. He is super cool. He's been out for 1 months, so I am finishing up training him. He's a straight tank, a big humble teddy bear. Speaking of teddy bears...

We found this in the mansion. Love y'all and hope you have a good week!

Love,

Cole

P.S. New address

1418 Lincoln Ave. #2

Fort Worth, TX 76164

Texas Parts

Hi guys, so it's transfers and I'm out! To... the mero mero, Ft. Worth! And, the place I'm going to live is a house, not an apartment. Haha, someone donated a house to the mission or something, so now the missionaries in Ft. Worth live there. In mission slang it's known as "the mansion." I am so excited! My new comp's name is Elder Tulonga or something like that, and it's his second transfer so I'm gonna finish up training him. I heard that my new area is more Mexican than Mexico itself. Woo! Still on a bike though. 

It's kinda weird to leave Haltom. After gallons of sweat, a surprising amount of blood, and one, very manly, tear, I'm on the way out. It's all good though. Haltom is on the upswing, and a pretty solid missionary is gonna replace me.

In other news, I finally learned a new way to tie my tie. Woo! Only after a year of wearing one every day haha. 

Look out Ft. Worth, there's a new sheriff in town.

Love,

Cole

**I found out that Sister Ames started a Mission Facebook page, and I found all of these photos of Coleman at work.  It was like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!!  

 

"Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Hahaha, that quote pretty much describes how I feel about Haltom. Sometimes I have lost enthusiasm though. 

So this week, we met this guy named Joaquin. He has some... interesting ideas about the Godhead. Hahaha, he was telling us that God and Jesus and the Spirit were the same (not that unusual or hard to teach the truth), until all of the sudden he agreed that God has a body. But not just 1, God apparently has 7 bodies. And can astral project himself into any of them, or if he wants he can just go around in spirit form. And every time the bible says the word "cielos" or "heaven" it is really talking about the 4th dimension. Needless to say, I learned a lot this week. Jk, he's really confused and he LOVES to talk, like a Texas talker on steroids laced with heroin. 

The good thing is, that I realized how much my knowledge and testimony have grown. Before, I might have questioned myself or something, but this time I was whippin' out scriptures right and left. I have the quickest draw this side of the Mississippi furr shurr. 

I went on exchanges with 2 missionaries that are getting trained, both of them in their area. Haha, it was pretty tiring. They want to do the best for sure, but they're just newbies and don't know what they're doing haha. They were both super stressed the whole day. They were all rigid, like a breadstick. I tried to give them the funk, but they wouldn't accept it. Haha, it was pretty fun, but it's been a tiring week.

Today, when I went to turn off the shower, the hot water wouldn't turn off. The tub filler upper faucet was just pounding water pure hard. I tried to play plumber, but the only tools I had were a bike multi tool and a crappy pedal wrench. I did pretty good at taking apart the whole tub, but I couldn't fix anything. So now our hot water is running until "later" when maintenance gets around to it. Oh well.

So when I was fixing the tub I moved my bike to get into the closet behind it, then when I came down 30 minutes later, my front tire was completely flat. There is no hole in the tube. I have no idea how all the air left. I studied patience as a Christlike attribute Sunday, and I suspect the Big Man upstairs is trying to help me. Thank you? 

Anywhey, next week are transfers. I have some good guesses of where I am going to go, but I'm not telling because I'm always wrong. 

I don't have any more pictures of me or from my camera, but one of the missionaries in my district let me borrow his usb to copy music, so here are some of him. 

Love, 

Cole

Random Missionary Photo

Tater tots and Jedi's

Hi guys! 

This week was one of those weeks where pretty much everything was pure average. Nothing really out of the ordinary happened at all haha. 

We had Zone Conference and it was pretty cool. I learned a lot. President wants us to ask y'all for some cool family history stories, so if you could send me some fun ones? I thought of Uncle Alvin and the Bear haha, and for some reason the creamation of Sam McGee even though he's not in our family. The problem with family history and latinos is 1. nobody really cares (I have tried to contact like 10 people and they strait up say "no" or "I don't really care" haha), and 2. there are not a ton of records so it is purty hard to do geneology.

Anyway, just so you know, basketball went really well last week. I have gotten way better out here. Look out D-Man!

Love,

Cole

P.S. Thank you for the picture sender thingy!

I shaved my head

I made something called tater tot casserole and ate it for 2 1/2 weeks.

Elder Petersen is a Jedi

One day Elder Petersen was really cold and so he put on all his winter clothes . . .

If you can see in the bottom right corner, it is 68 degrees.